Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

UK: Minister calls for children to be locked in school to stop them buying junk food
The Evening Standard (U.K.) ^ | July 6, 2008

Posted on 07/06/2008 1:23:56 PM PDT by Stoat

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last
Kevin Brennan - Contact Details

Constituency

Kevin Brennan MP
Cardiff West Constituency Office
Transport House
Cathedral Road
Cardiff
CF11 9SD
Tel: 02920 223 207
Fax: 02920 230 422
Email:
Click Here

Westminster

Kevin Brennan MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 3572
Fax: 020 7219 1753
Email:
brennank@parliament.uk


1 posted on 07/06/2008 1:23:57 PM PDT by Stoat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Hahahaha hahahahahahahaha ahhh geesh I can not help but laugh.


2 posted on 07/06/2008 1:25:18 PM PDT by Maelstorm (They will take our guns, take our money, take our children, and take our right to disagree.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat
We'll force them to eat "healthy" food - for their own good, of course. The children mustn't be allowed to decide what they would like to eat. That would be politically incorrect.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 07/06/2008 1:26:40 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

In the alternative, how about locking up (after flogging) elected officials who come up with asinine proposals.


4 posted on 07/06/2008 1:27:09 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Call BR-549!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Slings and Arrows

5 posted on 07/06/2008 1:29:43 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Obviously, eating the government’s food should be MANDATORY. No options. Each child gets a plateful, and must shovel it down under the supervision of a guard.

Better yet, since parents are obviously not teaching their children how to eat right, lock the kids in the government school 24/7. Since “marriage” has already been abolished, there’s really no such thing as a “parent” or a “family” anymore, anyway.

Better yet, put each child to work part of the day on a cycle-type apparatus, to put energy back into the electric grid. This will provide healthful exercise, in addition to the healthful diet the school is providing.

Better yet, hook each child’s brain and spinal column into the electric grid. And feed the brain educational and enjoyable images to keep the whole system stimulated.

Government school. The ONLY way to keep society from fragmenting.


6 posted on 07/06/2008 1:36:34 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Looks like Kevin could do with less food himself - or did he get the double chin by eating lettuce?


7 posted on 07/06/2008 1:43:52 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat
When I was young, back in the day, this guy would have stoned to death by pi**** off British citizens. Now they merely shrug or simply take it with a "what can you do" attitude.

We must keep pushing back or they will be doing this here in the US also. Our schools are already like indoctrination centers in some ways and we need to fight to get the feds out of government and to wrest back control of school from the state socialists that run them.

8 posted on 07/06/2008 1:44:11 PM PDT by calex59
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibFreeOrDie

LOL, I was thinking the same thing.. Kevin had been eating quite a bit of fish and chips, to get that double chin..


9 posted on 07/06/2008 2:00:22 PM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

bump


10 posted on 07/06/2008 2:10:23 PM PDT by lowbridge ("I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it" - Van Den Boogaard)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Maelstorm
Hahahaha hahahahahahahaha ahhh geesh I can not help but laugh.

The sad part about all this is that such a call is appropriately met by healthy derision from normal people, but to a breathtakingly large number of Socialists this is completely in keeping with their way of thinking and is viewed as a very thoughtful and rational solution to what they consider to be Government's role in managing the day-to-day upkeep and maintenance of it's subjects.

Their position is emboldened whenever some miscreant hoodie yob is rumbled for some astonishingly ultraviolent offense, and the 'parent' is interviewed on TV while crying hysterically and complaining that she had lost control of her litter, and how the Government failed to help her enough.

11 posted on 07/06/2008 2:10:47 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

What a fascist.


12 posted on 07/06/2008 2:13:43 PM PDT by Chewbacca (Ron Paul and if not him then Chuck Baldwin '08!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop
We'll force them to eat "healthy" food - for their own good, of course. The children mustn't be allowed to decide what they would like to eat. That would be politically incorrect.

"Please, sir, I want some more"

 

13 posted on 07/06/2008 2:14:27 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Arm_Bears
In the alternative, how about locking up (after flogging) elected officials who come up with asinine proposals.

Your proposal is far too rational, thoughtful and effective to be allowed serious consideration in the Socialist Utopia.

The penalty for providing realistic, workable solutions such as yours typically involves a Hate Speech charge.  Be warned.

14 posted on 07/06/2008 2:22:09 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

You are exactly right. We have the same thing here. One school banned backpacks that weren’t translucent as a way to prevent kids smuggling in guns. Not that the school had a problem with that but you know anything to keep the kids safe. They could try discipline and kicking out the troublemakers but that would require the school administrators earn their keep.

The best way to get kids to be healthy is to confiscate their ipods and portable game systems and cell phones on the way out the door to recess. Maybe they could chase them around with cattle prods or something. Keeping them locked in schools to keep them from eating sweets would be the last thing I’d be worried about children acquiring.

It is one reason we home school. I don’t have time to worry about such silliness. Some of the stuff would just make me laugh which is harmless enough but there is plenty that would just make me angry. I don’t like to get angry so we opt out of the insanity. We get to take vacations when we like, our kids generally like our company, and we generally like the company our kids keep at church and at the various sports they are involved in. We don’t isolate our kids and they even watch tv and play violent video games. The difference is we dictate our lives not the government schedule and I like it that way.


15 posted on 07/06/2008 2:27:23 PM PDT by Maelstorm (They will take our guns, take our money, take our children, and take our right to disagree.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Arthur McGowan
Better yet, since parents are obviously not teaching their children how to eat right, lock the kids in the government school 24/7.

Considering the Leftist indoctrination inflicted upon Society through TV and other media, such a situation already exists for many. The programming (and reprogramming) is constant and consistent, and dissent is not tolerated.

16 posted on 07/06/2008 2:29:27 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

The nanny-state. Coming to America soon.


17 posted on 07/06/2008 2:48:30 PM PDT by Signalman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibFreeOrDie
Looks like Kevin could do with less food himself - or did he get the double chin by eating lettuce?

No mention is made of a wife or children in his online bio, and so it may be that he is accustomed to Government-run (and taxpayer-funded) eateries in Parliament buildings for his meals....another fine endorsement of his Perfect Nutrition Comes From Government perspective.

18 posted on 07/06/2008 2:52:32 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Basic rule #1 of nutrition: If the kid (or the cat, same thing) won’t or can’t eat it, the sum total nutritional value is ZERO.....


19 posted on 07/06/2008 3:03:50 PM PDT by wendy1946
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: calex59
When I was young, back in the day, this guy would have stoned to death by pi**** off British citizens. Now they merely shrug or simply take it with a "what can you do" attitude.

It seems that it may not so very different in that respect here in the USA, although the cancer of Socialism has perhaps not advanced quite so far here as it has for our dear beleaguered friends Across the Pond.  In better times, my home state of Washington would never have tolerated such flagrant, hard-Left moonbats as Patty "Osama built nice roads" Murray, "Baghdad Jim" McDermott and a host of others who are not quite so internationally infamous. 

Fifty years ago, would such a frighteningly large swath of Americans have even given the time of day to a completely inexperienced and openly racist Marxist, much less enthusiastically deify him and push him down our throats as a Presidential contender, as is happening today?  I think not.

We must keep pushing back or they will be doing this here in the US also. Our schools are already like indoctrination centers in some ways and we need to fight to get the feds out of government and to wrest back control of school from the state socialists that run them.

Thankfully, homeschooling and other opt-out options are available for most Americans and so many are saving their children from this metastasizing cancer, but I haven't heard of similar opportunities for our British Friends other than breathtakingly expensive private schools.

20 posted on 07/06/2008 3:23:13 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson